When I think 'antifa' I think, oh, I don't know.Colleville-sur-Mer.But then again, these are the same types that constantly harp on about how proud they are - and yet, I must wonder what their antecedents would think of them...

I don't think the left has changed very much, I think they just have open platforms to speak from now. It wasn't long ago that the FBI were hauling film and TV execs into windowless rooms to discuss their insufficiently capitalist messaging. Now the world hears from every point on the spectrum, and not just the True Believers.

Oh, how'd I miss this... It's more the right has completely degenerated; that the 'left' includes venerated war dead, and the same folk that would normally bleat on about that - are dumb. Ahahaha...

I'm divided on whether or not I think more media is better; weirdly, I think a rather limited perspective can broaden the mind, or - if so inclined - a more driven opponent of that limited view.

The problem of the day is that there is too much media, too much information, and most people are not interested in thinking critically.And the amount of times I've caught something odious being amplified under the banner of being 'our side', only to have claws in a deeper disinformation campaign...

Maybe I'm too skeptical, though. There are a lot of signs recently that I might be being paranoid for the sake of being paranoid, so I've been trying to be a bit more hopeful. We'll see.

ITT a regular Ars Technica troll starts ranting about Brett Kavanaugh; this leads to a tangent where some other guy starts defending Kavanaugh with all kinds of "innocent until proven guilty" false equivalence.

Thad wrote:ITT a regular Ars Technica troll starts ranting about Brett Kavanaugh; this leads to a tangent where some other guy starts defending Kavanaugh with all kinds of "innocent until proven guilty" false equivalence.

I have seen people make some dumb, dumb rhetorical arguments while thinking they were being clever.

So I don't mean it lightly when I say I think this one is the dumbest.

(The article is about the broadband industry suing Vermont over its new net neutrality law.)

So the other day, some random on Twitter started talking to me about aboriginal peoples in response to an offhand comment I made about the positive aspects of traditional Inuit diets. It quickly became apparent that he was more likely to be wilfully ignorant (if not just trolling) rather than just ignorant, so I only bothered with 2-3 replies before I ended up just blowing him off with a laugh gif.

His last post (after trying to cite a paper written in 1956 - which literally described native peoples as "savages" - as scientifically relevant primary proof) was "Oh yeah? Well the guy who wrote my paper lived longer than the guy who wrote your paper!"

We know the guys name. And with 5 minutes of searching you can even learn what he looks like and the approx area of where he lives. Sooner or later he gonna be walking around some true gamers and that is the time to punish this loser. This fake gamer who writes clickbait articles to get attention. Lets just go find him and show him real gamer attention

Now... there's dumb. And there's DUMB. And there's dumb. But this... this puts all of those to shame.

My position was radicalized by the total destruction of every domain by SJW invasion. You can't have a superheroine with big tits anymore. It's totally insane, and I will support the military dictator who...deals with it.

With each passing day, U.S. policy toward Iran and Saudi Arabia more closely resembles the 1991 film classic “Thelma & Louise.”

For those too young to remember, the movie starred Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, two gal pals, whose fishing trip turns dark after Sarandon’s character shoots a would-be rapist, triggering one of the all-time great movie lines: “You shoot off a guy’s head with his pants down, believe me, Texas ain’t the place you want to get caught.” This eventually prompts the women to escape the police by dramatically driving their 1966 Thunderbird off a cliff into the Grand Canyon to their deaths.

Our department put up a bulletin board for voting day, encouraging people to think about and write on the board how they were going to vote / get to the polls. Mostly it's a lot of "getting up early before class!" "driving 2 hours to my hometown!" "Absentee!" but one person wrote:

"MY NON-VOTE IS AS VALID AS YOUR BALLOT"

and I seriously do not know what they could mean by that. Also yesterday someone wrote TRUMP across the middle but it's been entirely ignored.

There's a type of person who believes that by not voting they're "making a statement" about the quality of the candidates. In their mind, if enough people stopped voting, the politicians would be like "oh, wow, we need to give the people better candidates."

That is, of course, insane. You don't improve the quality of the candidates by NOT voting. Even a cursory logical examination would reveal that. I never held that position, even back when I was stupid(er) and didn't vote. (My reason was it was a waste of time and didn't matter, and I hated voting for the lesser of what I saw as two evils. Don't worry, I changed my tune a long time ago. At this point it's not voting for a "lesser" evil, it's voting for a probably/possibly flawed human versus literal nazis, child rapists, nazi sympathizers, and child rapist sympathizers.)